| 1) 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' |
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Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Katherine Mansfield, In a German Pension
Collette, Cheri
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| 2) 'I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.' |
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Ellen Glasgow, Virginia
Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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| 3) 'A man is so in the way in the house.' |
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George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
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| 4) 'My soul an't yours Mas'r. You haven't bought it - ye can't buy it. It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.' |
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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| 5) 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.' |
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Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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| 6) 'Reader, I married him.' |
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Willa Cather, Song of the Lark
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons
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| 7) 'What in the name of all that feels has he to do with books when I am dying?' |
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George Eliot, Silas Marner
Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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| 8) There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.' |
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Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Willa Cather, O Pioneers
Charlotte Bronte, The Professor
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| 9) Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within her and about her.' |
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Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Stories
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Colette, Chance Acquaintances
Daphne Rooke, Mittee
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| 10) '...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.' |
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Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm
George Eliot, Middlemarch
George Sand, Lettres d'un Voyageur
Jean Rhys, Letters 1931-1966
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